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Spy and Kong

23 December 2006

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Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]

Blueberry solar panels, and blue urine

14 December 2006

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Italian scientists have discovered a way to replace the expensive silicon in solar panels with blueberry pigment You cannot make this stuff up. Whatever else it will be, our future will be indescribably weird. Saw “The Madness of King George” a night ago and found myself, to my surprise, somewhat annoyed–I usually love Alan Bennett’s [...]

Beautiful Trow quote:

10 December 2006

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From George W.S. Trow, via an essay about him in The New York Observer: “America is a glory of a country, and a glorious idea for a country, and we would be saved now by the love of it if the idea of the love of it hadn’t been strip-mined and left ugly.” About sums [...]

Nice appreciation of GWS Trow in Slate

8 December 2006

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Stephen Metcalfe sums up writer George W.S. Trow and his major work, Within the Context of No Context. It’s a reasonably good read for people interested in such things. The scion of a prosperous New York printing family, Trow was a prime mover in the revivication that turned the Harvard Lampoon from a snotty finals-club [...]

Racism, anti-semitism, and comedy

5 December 2006

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Between Michael Richards and BORAT, there’s been a lot of talk lately about comedy and prejudice. I’ve held out as long as I could, but here’s my two cents. Playing a prejudiced character shouldn’t get anybody in hot water. Acting prejudiced should. Each of us can only inhabit one body/identity/gender. If we are virtuous, we [...]

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Spy and Kong

Blueberry solar panels, and blue urine

Beautiful Trow quote:

Nice appreciation of GWS Trow in Slate

Racism, anti-semitism, and comedy

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